Why is there still no national nursing safe staffing law despite the publication of study after study showing a direct correlation between insufficient nurse staffing and adverse patient outcomes, including death?
Why is this important?
Nursing is the nations greatest resource and a great asset to reforming healthcare.Safe patient care is directly positively linked to the quality of all staff nurses work environments. Healthy work environments are empirically linked to patients satisfaction and to retention, reduced turnover, increased attraction, job satisfaction, and lower degree of job stress and burnout among nurses (Kramer, 2008).
